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19-March-2010
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Maybe I'm just being callous, but I can't help but think society would be better off without a large majority of the benefit-claiming, council estate cases in the U.K.  It sometimes feels that, in any other country in the world, these people would have starved on the streets before now - yet here in this country we have to pay a percentage of our earnings to keep them in the style they have become accustomed to.

Council estate residents, benefit claiming

I read today of a notorious council estate where the youths had hung a dog from the lamp-post and set it on fire.  In fact not so long ago there was another article with the very same residents (complete with a photograph of a bunch of overweight, hoop-earring proles scowling with their arms crossed like some kind of Jeremy Kyle audience) complaining about the council's long-overdue decision to demolish this estate and re-house them.  I might add that they were to be re-housed at no cost to themselves!

I'm sure there's some people who, for whatever reason, genuinely require benefits or disability payments and can't work. Perhaps there are also those who find themselves taking council homes because it's the only choice they have.  I feel truly sorry for these decent and honest people who are probably in the minority, especially if they have to share their lives with this ever-increasing underclass of scum.

By: Cynical Blonde


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A new council tax re-evaluation policy wants to charge us more if we
live in a nice area.

That ought to mean discounts for those of us who live in rough areas.

There is a huge council house in our street. The extended family is
run by a grumpy old woman with a pack of fierce dogs.

Her car isn't taxed or insured and doesn't even have a licence plate,
but the police still do nothing.

Her bad-tempered old man is notorious for racist comments. A shopkeeper
blames him for ordering the murder of his son and his son's
girlfriend, but nothing has been proved yet.

All their kids have broken marriages except the youngest, who everyone
thought was gay.

Two grandsons are meant to be in the Army but are always out partying in
nightclubs. They are out of control.

I hate living near Windsor Castle.
*MikeP  15-Mar-2010 20:17

 
I take offence to the remarks about people in council estates we live in one and we pay rent and council tax we live in a small one bedroomed terraced house and pay over £1000 a year council tax the english dont have a clue about what we pay in Scotland we have friends in Luton who pay less council tax than us and they live in a three storey town house with three bathrooms as for the winter allowance why do people in the south of England get this as in Scotland it`s a lot colder for a lot longer,all you daily mail readers should get into the real world,ohh for got to mention we get benefits the old age pension
*Dixie-the-pixie  15-Mar-2010 19:23

 
Been there, you are a little bit wrong, I love it when a plan doesn't come together, especially the one designed to humiliate me even more after my divorce,

My two fingers up in the air name changing son can't get his own way, he can't see his brothers and sisters, nothing he can do about it, he didn't plan for that,

The same goes for my adulterating dad, he can't see his grand kids grow up, he didn't plan for that, I am not the only laughing stock now,

Don't YOU just hate it when a plan doesn't come together. he who laughs last?
*Gainsborough lad.  02-Mar-2010 22:44

 
Gainsborough lad, my name is nicola, and I have only ever posted on hear using that name.
from reading your history on this page, if I wanted to insult you I would not change my name and pretend to be some 1 else cause I would want you to know it was me that was doing it!
and the things that I posted wer not personally aimed at you, just in retaliation to what you said two sides to every story and all that
*nicola  02-Mar-2010 22:34

 
Gainsborough lad.
If that was meant as a joke,then you should have found it funny, not an insult when I turned it around.
Maybe the funny side for you was the idea of me turning up there and you not. Ha ha, hilarious.
Do you really think I would be so stupid to leave my family to drive all the way to one of your little haunts to make fun of you when I can do it from home ?. (Or was I going to fly?, sorry, I can't remember if im living in Florida or UK)
Maybe you're pi$$ed off because you turned up and I didn't ! Now that's what I would call hilarious.
Since you remember so clearly all the insulting names I have called you in the past, maybe you would just like to refresh my memory, since it bothers you so much. Then everybody will know how cruel I am to you.
Don't you just hate it when a plan doesn't come together !
*Been there  02-Mar-2010 20:11

 
Been there, that was meant as a tongue in cheek joke, but I forgot you have no sense of humor,

But you will carry on with name calling, because that is your only way to win in your mind.

I suggest you go and have a look at all your old postings against me, to see the insults yourself.
*Gainsborough lad.  02-Mar-2010 12:22

 
Gainsborough lad.,
" Oh my, this is getting really bitter now, I suggest we meet up for a face to face,

Tomorrow dinnertime, Marshalls yard, high noon, loser buys lunch.".
Do you not remember it ?
Would you like to tell me how I have been insulting when all I did was repeat what YOU said ?
What names have I called you ?
If you don't like being called childish, then I suggest you stop acting it.

You need to think before you hit the submit box in future.
*Been there  02-Mar-2010 10:36

 
Been there, I thought for a minute that you had repented and stopped calling me names in your postings, 135 words without an insult, then the very last word of your post the word "loser"

That last word made your posting so much more stronger against me, I must remember to use insults against other gripers in my my postings to make my points more valid.
*Gainsborough lad.  01-Mar-2010 22:31

 
Gainsborough lad,
On the 26th feb, you posted "Been there once had a lenghty discussion about abortion with me, I don't think he liked the things that I was saying then, perhaps that is why been there seems to dislike me."
Then, I was male. Now, I am lots of females.
As much as I would love to wind you up by agreeing with your accusation, I fear it may upset those other posters you mentioned.
Besides, I do not feel insecure,lonely or desperate enough to resort to the childish behavior of inventing invisible friends to back me up in what I say or to have a conversation with.
Maybe you are upset because I didn't turn up for our dinner date, and you ended up paying for your lunch!!! Who did you say was paying ? Oh yes.... LOSER.
*Been there  01-Mar-2010 13:37

 
Been there, so I like to think that I am clever? in what way? the same way that a lot of other posters on here do, just by writing things on here? I won't lower myself to pure name calling like you do sometimes because you think it makes your point of view stronger.
*Broadsword.  01-Mar-2010 11:50

 
The most significant abuse I can see here is nicola's outrageous abuse of the apostrophe.
*Congo  01-Mar-2010 08:30

 
And Been there is Floridagirl, Woman, Digsy and now Nicola.

Try using this forum for discussion instead of name calling.
*Gainsborough lad.  01-Mar-2010 08:21


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